poverty

A sign announces the acceptance of electronic benefit transfer cards at a farmers market in California. Anti-poverty groups fear that many low-income people might be pushed off programs such as food stamps under a possible change to how the government measures poverty.
Rich Pedroncelli/AP
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Members of the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective inspect one of their apiaries. The collective teaches displaced coal miners in West Virginia how to keep bees as a way to supplement their income.
Courtesy of Kevin Johnson
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Why This Charity Isn't Afraid To Say It Failed

The 2016 viral photo of a couple passed out in a car while a child sits in the back seat triggered a painful moment of self-reflection in East Liverpool, Ohio. The community took steps to address its addiction problem, but progress has been spotty.
Ian Brown for NPR
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Drug addiction is a big concern to rural Americans, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Alice Goldfarb/NPR
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Too Little, Too Much: How Poverty and Wealth Affect Our Minds

According to the latest results from the Energy Information Administration, nearly a third of households in the United States have reported trouble paying their energy bills.
Ponsulak Kunsub/Getty Images/EyeEm
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Rev. William Barber is co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. He says this movement is about bringing issues of poverty into the national political discourse.
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